Author: Paul Huijbregts Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd ISBN: 180461517X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 362
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Gain an in-depth understanding of Microsoft Defender 365, explore its features, and learn successful implementation strategies with this expert-led practitioner's guide. Key Features Understand the history of MDE, its capabilities, and how you can keep your organization secure Learn to implement, operationalize, and troubleshoot MDE from both IT and SecOps perspectives Leverage useful commands, tips, tricks, and real-world insights shared by industry experts Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionWith all organizational data and trade secrets being digitized, the threat of data compromise, unauthorized access, and cyberattacks has increased exponentially. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) is a market-leading cross-platform endpoint security solution that enables you to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to threats. MDE helps strengthen the security posture of your organization. This book starts with a history of the product and a primer on its various features. From prevention to attack surface reduction, detection, and response, you’ll learn about the features, their applicability, common misconceptions, and caveats. After planning, preparation, deployment, and configuration toward successful implementation, you’ll be taken through a day in the life of a security analyst working with the product. You’ll uncover common issues, techniques, and tools used for troubleshooting along with answers to some of the most common challenges cybersecurity professionals face. Finally, the book will wrap up with a reference guide with tips and tricks to maintain a strong cybersecurity posture. By the end of the book, you’ll have a deep understanding of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and be well equipped to keep your organization safe from different forms of cyber threats.What you will learn Understand the backstory of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Discover different features, their applicability, and caveats Prepare and plan a rollout within an organization Explore tools and methods to successfully operationalize the product Implement continuous operations and improvement to your security posture Get to grips with the day-to-day of SecOps teams operating the product Deal with common issues using various techniques and tools Uncover commonly used commands, tips, and tricks Who this book is for This book is for cybersecurity professionals and incident responders looking to increase their knowledge of MDE and its underlying components while learning to prepare, deploy, and operationalize the product. A basic understanding of general systems management, administration, endpoint security, security baselines, and basic networking is required.
Author: Christiaan Brinkhoff Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1801072175 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 666
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Design and implement a secure end-to-end desktop management solution with Microsoft Endpoint Manager Key Features Learn everything you need to know about deploying and managing Windows on physical and cloud PCs Simplify remote working for cloud-managed cloud PCs via new service Windows 365 Benefit from the authors' experience of managing physical endpoints and traditional virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) Book DescriptionMicrosoft Modern Workplace solutions can simplify the management layer of your environment remarkably if you take the time to understand and implement them. With this book, you’ll learn everything you need to know to make the shift to Modern Workplace, running Windows 10, Windows 11, or Windows 365. Mastering Microsoft Endpoint Manager explains various concepts in detail to give you the clarity to plan how to use Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) and eliminate potential migration challenges beforehand. You'll get to grips with using new services such as Windows 365 Cloud PC, Windows Autopilot, profile management, monitoring and analytics, and Universal Print. The book will take you through the latest features and new Microsoft cloud services to help you to get to grips with the fundamentals of MEM and understand which services you can manage. Whether you are talking about physical or cloud endpoints—it’s all covered. By the end of the book, you'll be able to set up MEM and use it to run Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows 365 efficiently.What you will learn Understand how Windows 365 Cloud PC makes the deployment of Windows in the cloud easy Configure advanced policy management within MEM Discover modern profile management and migration options for physical and cloud PCs Harden security with baseline settings and other security best practices Find troubleshooting tips and tricks for MEM, Windows 365 Cloud PC, and more Discover deployment best practices for physical and cloud-managed endpoints Keep up with the Microsoft community and discover a list of MVPs to follow Who this book is for If you are an IT professional, enterprise mobility administrator, architect, or consultant looking to learn about managing Windows on both physical and cloud endpoints using Microsoft Endpoint Manager, then this book is for you.
Author: Yuri Diogenes Publisher: Microsoft Press ISBN: 1509307060 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 298
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Discover high-value Azure security insights, tips, and operational optimizations This book presents comprehensive Azure Security Center techniques for safeguarding cloud and hybrid environments. Leading Microsoft security and cloud experts Yuri Diogenes and Dr. Thomas Shinder show how to apply Azure Security Center’s full spectrum of features and capabilities to address protection, detection, and response in key operational scenarios. You’ll learn how to secure any Azure workload, and optimize virtually all facets of modern security, from policies and identity to incident response and risk management. Whatever your role in Azure security, you’ll learn how to save hours, days, or even weeks by solving problems in most efficient, reliable ways possible. Two of Microsoft’s leading cloud security experts show how to: • Assess the impact of cloud and hybrid environments on security, compliance, operations, data protection, and risk management • Master a new security paradigm for a world without traditional perimeters • Gain visibility and control to secure compute, network, storage, and application workloads • Incorporate Azure Security Center into your security operations center • Integrate Azure Security Center with Azure AD Identity Protection Center and third-party solutions • Adapt Azure Security Center’s built-in policies and definitions for your organization • Perform security assessments and implement Azure Security Center recommendations • Use incident response features to detect, investigate, and address threats • Create high-fidelity fusion alerts to focus attention on your most urgent security issues • Implement application whitelisting and just-in-time VM access • Monitor user behavior and access, and investigate compromised or misused credentials • Customize and perform operating system security baseline assessments • Leverage integrated threat intelligence to identify known bad actors
Author: Ru Campbell Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1803240741 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 572
Book Description
Get to grips with Microsoft's enterprise defense suite and its capabilities, deployments, incident response, and defense against cyber threats Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF ebook Key Features Help in understanding Microsoft 365 Defender and how it is crucial for security operations Implementation of the proactive security defense capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Office 365, and Cloud Apps so that attacks can be stopped before they start A guide to hunting and responding to threats using M365D’s extended detection and response capabilities Book DescriptionThis book will help you get up and running with Microsoft 365 Defender and help you use the whole suite effectively. You’ll start with a quick overview of cybersecurity risks that modern organizations face, such as ransomware and APT attacks, how Microsoft is making massive investments in security today, and gain an understanding of how to deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint by diving deep into configurations and their architecture. As you progress, you’ll learn how to configure Microsoft Defender Antivirus, and onboard and manage macOS, Android, and Linux MDE devices for effective solutions. You’ll also learn how to deploy Microsoft Defender for Identity and explore its different deployment methods that can protect your hybrid identity platform, as well as how to configure Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Cloud Apps, and manage KQL queries for advanced hunting with ease. Toward the end, you’ll find out how M365D can be integrated with Sentinel and how to use APIs for incident response. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of Microsoft 365 Defender, and how to protect and respond to security threats.What you will learn Understand the Threat Landscape for enterprises Effectively implement end-point security Manage identity and access management using Microsoft 365 defender Protect the productivity suite with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Hunting for threats using Microsoft 365 Defender Who this book is for You’re a security engineer, incident responder, blue teamer, or an IT security professional who wants to deploy and manage Microsoft 365 Defender services and successfully investigate and respond tocyber threats You have a basic understanding of networking, vulnerabilities, operating systems, email, Active Directory, and cloud apps
Author: Mark E. Russinovich Publisher: Microsoft Press ISBN: 0133986519 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 1332
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Optimize Windows system reliability and performance with Sysinternals IT pros and power users consider the free Windows Sysinternals tools indispensable for diagnosing, troubleshooting, and deeply understanding the Windows platform. In this extensively updated guide, Sysinternals creator Mark Russinovich and Windows expert Aaron Margosis help you use these powerful tools to optimize any Windows system’s reliability, efficiency, performance, and security. The authors first explain Sysinternals’ capabilities and help you get started fast. Next, they offer in-depth coverage of each major tool, from Process Explorer and Process Monitor to Sysinternals’ security and file utilities. Then, building on this knowledge, they show the tools being used to solve real-world cases involving error messages, hangs, sluggishness, malware infections, and much more. Windows Sysinternals creator Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis show you how to: Use Process Explorer to display detailed process and system information Use Process Monitor to capture low-level system events, and quickly filter the output to narrow down root causes List, categorize, and manage software that starts when you start or sign in to your computer, or when you run Microsoft Office or Internet Explorer Verify digital signatures of files, of running programs, and of the modules loaded in those programs Use Autoruns, Process Explorer, Sigcheck, and Process Monitor features that can identify and clean malware infestations Inspect permissions on files, keys, services, shares, and other objects Use Sysmon to monitor security-relevant events across your network Generate memory dumps when a process meets specified criteria Execute processes remotely, and close files that were opened remotely Manage Active Directory objects and trace LDAP API calls Capture detailed data about processors, memory, and clocks Troubleshoot unbootable devices, file-in-use errors, unexplained communication, and many other problems Understand Windows core concepts that aren’t well-documented elsewhere
Author: Amit Malik Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1801076855 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 243
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Accelerate hybrid cloud innovation using Azure Arc with the help of real-world scenarios and examples Key FeaturesGet to grips with setting up and working with Azure ArcHarness the power of Azure Arc and its integration with cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes and PaaS data servicesManage, govern, and monitor your on-premises servers and applications with AzureBook Description With all the options available for deploying infrastructure on multi-cloud platforms and on-premises comes the complexity of managing it, which is adeptly handled by Azure Arc. This book will show you how you can manage environments across platforms without having to migrate workloads from on-premises or multi-cloud to Azure every time. Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc starts with an introduction to Azure Arc and hybrid cloud computing, covering use cases and various supported topologies. You'll learn to set up Windows and Linux servers as Arc-enabled machines and get to grips with deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters with Azure Arc and GitOps. The book then demonstrates how to onboard an on-premises SQL Server infrastructure as an Arc-enabled SQL Server and deploy and manage a hyperscale PostgreSQL infrastructure on-premises through Azure Arc. Along with deployment, the book also covers security, backup, migration, and data distribution aspects. Finally, it shows you how to deploy and manage Azure's data services on your own private cloud and explore multi-cloud solutions with Azure Arc. By the end of this book, you'll have a firm understanding of Azure Arc and how it interacts with various cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes and PaaS data services. What you will learnSet up a fully functioning Azure Arc-managed environmentExplore products and services from Azure that will help you to leverage Azure ArcUnderstand the new vision of working with on-premises infrastructureDeploy Azure's PaaS data services on-premises or on other cloud platformsDiscover and learn about the technologies required to design a hybrid and multi-cloud strategyImplement best practices to govern your IT infrastructure in a scalable modelWho this book is for This book is for Cloud IT professionals (Azure and/or AWS), system administrators, database administrators (DBAs), and architects looking to gain clarity about how Azure Arc works and how it can help them achieve business value. Anyone with basic Azure knowledge will benefit from this book.
Author: Richard Diver Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1801813582 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 478
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Learn how to set up, configure, and use Microsoft Sentinel to provide security incident and event management services for your multi-cloud environment Key FeaturesCollect, normalize, and analyze security information from multiple data sourcesIntegrate AI, machine learning, built-in and custom threat analyses, and automation to build optimal security solutionsDetect and investigate possible security breaches to tackle complex and advanced cyber threatsBook Description Microsoft Sentinel is a security information and event management (SIEM) tool developed by Microsoft that helps you integrate cloud security and artificial intelligence (AI). This book will teach you how to implement Microsoft Sentinel and understand how it can help detect security incidents in your environment with integrated AI, threat analysis, and built-in and community-driven logic. The first part of this book will introduce you to Microsoft Sentinel and Log Analytics, then move on to understanding data collection and management, as well as how to create effective Microsoft Sentinel queries to detect anomalous behaviors and activity patterns. The next part will focus on useful features, such as entity behavior analytics and Microsoft Sentinel playbooks, along with exploring the new bi-directional connector for ServiceNow. In the next part, you'll be learning how to develop solutions that automate responses needed to handle security incidents and find out more about the latest developments in security, techniques to enhance your cloud security architecture, and explore how you can contribute to the security community. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to implement Microsoft Sentinel to fit your needs and protect your environment from cyber threats and other security issues. What you will learnImplement Log Analytics and enable Microsoft Sentinel and data ingestion from multiple sourcesTackle Kusto Query Language (KQL) codingDiscover how to carry out threat hunting activities in Microsoft SentinelConnect Microsoft Sentinel to ServiceNow for automated ticketingFind out how to detect threats and create automated responses for immediate resolutionUse triggers and actions with Microsoft Sentinel playbooks to perform automationsWho this book is for You'll get the most out of this book if you have a good grasp on other Microsoft security products and Azure, and are now looking to expand your knowledge to incorporate Microsoft Sentinel. Security experts who use an alternative SIEM tool and want to adopt Microsoft Sentinel as an additional or a replacement service will also find this book useful.
Author: Peter Rising Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1804619426 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 630
Book Description
Explore expert tips and techniques to effectively manage the security, compliance, and identity features within your Microsoft 365 applications Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Discover techniques to reap the full potential of Microsoft security and compliance suite Explore a range of strategies for effective security and compliance Gain practical knowledge to resolve real-world challenges Book Description The Microsoft 365 Security, Compliance, and Identity Administration is designed to help you manage, implement, and monitor security and compliance solutions for Microsoft 365 environments. With this book, you'll first configure, administer identity and access within Microsoft 365. You'll learn about hybrid identity, authentication methods, and conditional access policies with Microsoft Intune. Next, you'll discover how RBAC and Azure AD Identity Protection can be used to detect risks and secure information in your organization. You'll also explore concepts such as Microsoft Defender for endpoint and identity, along with threat intelligence. As you progress, you'll uncover additional tools and techniques to configure and manage Microsoft 365, including Azure Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. By the end of this book, you'll be well-equipped to manage and implement security measures within your Microsoft 365 suite successfully. What you will learn Get up to speed with implementing and managing identity and access Understand how to employ and manage threat protection Manage Microsoft 365's governance and compliance features Implement and manage information protection techniques Explore best practices for effective configuration and deployment Ensure security and compliance at all levels of Microsoft 365 Who this book is for This book is for IT professionals, administrators, or anyone looking to pursue a career in security administration and wants to enhance their skills in utilizing Microsoft 365 Security Administration. A basic understanding of administration principles of Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory is a must. A good grip of on-premises Active Directory will be beneficial.
Author: Raghu Boddu Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1835085849 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 296
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A practical guide to deploying, managing, and leveraging the power of Microsoft's unified security solution Key Features Learn how to leverage Microsoft's XDR and SIEM for long-term resilience Explore ways to elevate your security posture using Microsoft Defender tools such as MDI, MDE, MDO, MDA, and MDC Discover strategies for proactive threat hunting and rapid incident response Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionTired of dealing with fragmented security tools and navigating endless threat escalations? Take charge of your cyber defenses with the power of Microsoft's unified XDR and SIEM solution. This comprehensive guide offers an actionable roadmap to implementing, managing, and leveraging the full potential of the powerful unified XDR + SIEM solution, starting with an overview of Zero Trust principles and the necessity of XDR + SIEM solutions in modern cybersecurity. From understanding concepts like EDR, MDR, and NDR and the benefits of the unified XDR + SIEM solution for SOC modernization to threat scenarios and response, you’ll gain real-world insights and strategies for addressing security vulnerabilities. Additionally, the book will show you how to enhance Secure Score, outline implementation strategies and best practices, and emphasize the value of managed XDR and SIEM solutions. That’s not all; you’ll also find resources for staying updated in the dynamic cybersecurity landscape. By the end of this insightful guide, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of XDR, SIEM, and Microsoft's unified solution to elevate your overall security posture and protect your organization more effectively.What you will learn Optimize your security posture by mastering Microsoft's robust and unified solution Understand the synergy between Microsoft Defender's integrated tools and Sentinel SIEM and SOAR Explore practical use cases and case studies to improve your security posture See how Microsoft's XDR and SIEM proactively disrupt attacks, with examples Implement XDR and SIEM, incorporating assessments and best practices Discover the benefits of managed XDR and SOC services for enhanced protection Who this book is for This comprehensive guide is your key to unlocking the power of Microsoft's unified XDR and SIEM offering. Whether you're a cybersecurity pro, incident responder, SOC analyst, or simply curious about these technologies, this book has you covered. CISOs, IT leaders, and security professionals will gain actionable insights to evaluate and optimize their security architecture with Microsoft's integrated solution. This book will also assist modernization-minded organizations to maximize existing licenses for a more robust security posture.
Author: Ed Bott Publisher: Microsoft Press ISBN: 0735696985 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
Get a head start evaluating Windows 10--with technical insights from award-winning journalist and Windows expert Ed Bott. This guide introduces new features and capabilities, providing a practical, high-level overview for IT professionals ready to begin deployment planning now. This edition was written after the release of Windows 10 version 1511 in November 2015 and includes all of its enterprise-focused features. The goal of this book is to help you sort out what’s new in Windows 10, with a special emphasis on features that are different from the Windows versions you and your organization are using today, starting with an overview of the operating system, describing the many changes to the user experience, and diving deep into deployment and management tools where it’s necessary.
Author: Paul Huijbregts
Author: Christiaan Brinkhoff
Author: Yuri Diogenes
Author: Ru Campbell
Author: Mark E. Russinovich
Author: Amit Malik
Author: Richard Diver
Author: Peter Rising
Author: Raghu Boddu
Author: Ed Bott